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Sandwiches even inspire a special lingo used by coffee-shop and deli personnel to relay orders to the sandwichmen behind the counter. Because pastrami can sound a lot like salami when shouted out in a busy, noisy dining room, it is known as "pistol." A "pistol with a shot" means that coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort...
From thatch-roofed Amazonian villages to dusty cattle towns on the Argentine border, the rasping blare of loudspeakers drowned out other sounds in Brazil last week. Sao Paulo's skyscrapers shook to political singing commercials. Sandwichmen stalked the streets on stilts scattering handbills. Placards adorned nearly every lamppost in the land. Office seekers barnstormed the backlands in chartered planes; at least two lost their lives trying to fly in & out of bush-country airfields...
...Take the Liberty." Because Lipton "had no use for middlemen," he sailed for Ceylon in 1890 and invested in several tea plantations to supply his 300 stores. Britons were used to buying their tea in bulk; Lipton packaged it, hired sandwichmen dressed as Indians to parade through the streets advertising it, soon had everyone persuaded that tea and "Lipton's" were synonymous. By the time he moved his offices to London in the early 1890s, Lipton's name was a British household word...
...Yard and the gigantic adventure of freight-smoke and bells-the places the dusty freight-cars have been, the things they have seen! The life of a trackwalker on the subway, dodging 200 cannonball flyers a day for tiny wages-the sleights of a push cart man -the sandwichmen, those biting commentators upon our modern scheme of existence-the revivalists-the lovers of Little Italy-the bums-the men in the dark-the men in the storm-the men in the snow. Do you know of the white-draped cradle within the door of one of New York...
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